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Facing Eviction, Protesters Begin Park Cleanup — As the clock ticked down on the occupiers of Zuccotti Park and the prospect of eviction loomed, the Occupy Wall Street protesters' pre-emptive cleanup effort lurched into gear Thursday afternoon. — Volunteers taped off sections of the park …
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Cleanup of Zuccotti Park Is Canceled — The cleanup of the Lower Manhattan park that has been occupied by protesters for nearly a month was canceled Friday shortly before it was supposed to begin, averting a feared showdown between the police and demonstrators who had vowed to resist any efforts to evict them from their encampment.
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Occupy Wall Street:
OccupyWallStreet — Tell Bloomberg: Don't Foreclose the Occupation. Join us at 6AM FRIDAY for non-violent eviction defense. — Please take a minute to read this, and please take action and spread the word far and wide. — Occupy Wall Street is gaining momentum, with occupation actions now happening in cities across the world.
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Occupy Wall St. cleanup called off — The scheduled cleanup of the park where hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters have camped for four weeks has been postponed, Mayor Michael Blooomberg's office announced early Friday morning. — “Late last night, we received notice from the owners …
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Felix Salmon:
On George Soros, Occupy Wall Street, and Reuters — Wouldn't it be ironic if Occupy Wall Street — the soi-disant “99%” — were being secretly funded by billionaire Davos Man George Soros, exemplar of the 1%? Well, no, it wouldn't, actually. As Noreen Malone points out, lots of the 1% have …
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Zombie / Pajamas Media:
More Anti-Semitism at Occupy Los Angeles
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CNN:
Wall Street protest rep says group won't leave ahead of cleaning
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Reuters:
Who's behind the Wall St. protests?
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: The Notice Of Rules That May Be Used To Shut Down Occupy Wall Street
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Jake Dobkin / Gothamist:
This Just In: Mayor Bloomberg Shows Up At Occupy Wall Street
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David Moore / Wall Street Journal:
The Panhandler and the President — I do not recall another president whose negative drumbeat about large segments of the population has been so relentless. — Walking down New York's 55th Street near Park Avenue last Friday evening, our group of seven men in suits and ties was approached by a panhandler asking for money.
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The Huffington Post:
Herman Cain 999 Plan: Did It Come From SimCity? … WASHINGTON — In Herman Cain's America, the tax code would be very, very simple: The corporate income tax rate would be 9 percent, the personal income tax rate would be 9 percent and the national sales tax rate would be 9 percent.
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CBS News:
“Unusual” meeting between US, Iran over plot — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Thursday that officials at the “highest levels” of the Iranian government must be held accountable for a brazen and bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States on American soil …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Vows to Punish Iran in Alleged Plot Against Envoy
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
John Boehner's committees hit $18M mark — John Boehner has proved once again it pays to be speaker of the House. — Boehner's political committees raised more than $6 million during the third quarter, POLITICO has learned. Since the Ohio Republican took the speaker's gavel in January …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Barack Obama calls John Boehner, gets earful
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rabbit-Hole Economics — Reading the transcript of Tuesday's Republican debate on the economy is, for anyone who has actually been following economic events these past few years, like falling down a rabbit hole. Suddenly, you find yourself in a fantasy world where nothing looks or behaves the way it does in real life.
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The Politico:
Editors' Note — One of the inviolable principles of journalism, one we live by at POLITICO, is that the work we publish must be genuinely our own. Whenever we must rely on reporting or ideas that were first produced by others, our policy is to cite and/or link to these sources by name …
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MyFox Boston:
Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents — BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters. — The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Professor of Philip Garber, N.J. Stutterer, Defends Actions — Calling herself “the victim of a character assassination,” the college professor who asked a student with a severe stutter not to pose questions in class said that her actions were misinterpreted, and that she did not mean to silence him.
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Space Tourism, Space Transport …:
Iran failed with space monkey launch: report — Iran acknowledged as a failure Wednesday its attempt to send a live monkey into space last month — touted as its first step towards launching a man into space. — “The Kavoshgar-5 rocket carrying a capsule with a live animal (a monkey) …
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Martin S. Feldstein / New York Times:
How to Stop the Drop in Home Values — HOMES are the primary form of wealth for most Americans. Since the housing bubble burst in 2006, the wealth of American homeowners has fallen by some $9 trillion, or nearly 40 percent. In the 12 months ending in June, house values fell by more than $1 trillion, or 8 percent.
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Lindsay Murdoch / Sydney Morning Herald:
Islamic sex guide says wives meet only 10% of husbands' desires — BANGKOK: Just months after telling its members to serve their husbands better than prostitutes, prompting widespread criticism, the Obedient Wives Club of Malaysia has stirred further controversy by publishing a guide to Islamic sex.
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Boston Globe:
in study, sweat — Mitt Romney would lead Bain Capital from a staff of seven people managing $37 million to 115 people managing $4 billion. During his tenure, the firm would post an astonishing record, on average doubling its return on realized investments every year.
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Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Republican Endorsements? Romney Leads But The Party Has Not Decided … 2012 Elections , Chris Christie , Mitt Romney , Elections 2012 , Video , Power Outsiders , Republican Endorsements , Republican Presidential Endorsements , Thad Cochran , The Party Decides , Pollster Analysis , Politics News
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Jacob Heilbrunn / Foreign Policy:
Twilight of the Wise Man — The 2012 election may well mark the last gasp of the Republican foreign-policy establishment. But what's more remarkable is that it lasted as long as it did. — In September 2005, two U.S. senators walked into a Soviet-era weapons factory in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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